Avionics

Canadian operators of Piper Aircraft M600 single-engine turboprops are now cleared for the Garmin Autoland system. Piper announced Aug. 3 it has been awarded approval from Transport Canada’s Civil Aviation (TCAA) authorities for the M600/SLS HALO safety system, which includes Garmin Autoland and standalone autothrottle. According to Piper, “If necessary, HALO takes over the controls […]

One summer, while flying over the largest wilderness in the lower 48 states, I heard a radio call: “Mayday, Mayday, Mayday. White Cessna… [broken and inaudible transmission].” I heard just enough to understand something bad was happening, but not where. I repeatedly tried to hail the aircraft to get them to repeat their location, to […]

Flying light airplanes can easily take you outside of cellphone range, especially for pilots who fly in backcountry environments. A forced landing, even if successful, could leave you out of touch and with no good way to call for assistance. That can be deadly if the pilot or a passenger is injured. As part of […]

Safran announced it’s buying Collins Aerospace’s flight control business for $1.8 billion. The French company says it wants the business unit to strengthen its own competing flight control enterprise. “The transaction would enable us to deliver a comprehensive offering to our clients and position us extremely well for next-generation platforms as the segments move toward […]

When we talk with busy avionics shops around the country, it’s clear that electronic flight displays are tops for major upgrades. For aging aircraft, that means yanking out spinning iron gyros and usually the vacuum systems that feed them. These upgrades replenish the used gyro market, making it easier to maintain older panels still sporting […]

Introduced in 2021, Honeywell’s clean-sheet Anthem integrated flight deck has racked up over 120 hours of flight testing in a Pilatus PC-12 turboprop, and the test bed (with pre-production test hardware) was on public display for the first time at AirVenture 2023. Aviation Consumer Editor Larry Anglisano climbed aboard the Pilatus with company flight test […]

The King KX155 and KX165 navcomm radios are two of the most popular navcomm radios of all time and there are plenty of these aging rigs still in service begging for an easy upgrade. Honeywell showed up at AirVenture 2023 with a long-awaited replacement called the KX200. Aviation Consumer Editor Larry Anglisano took a look […]

The latest addition to Dynon’s Certified product line, the D30 Touchscreen Electronic Flight Display “serves as a backup set of flight instruments in STC’d SkyView HDX systems,” which are now available for installation in more than 600 type-certified aircraft models, according to Dynon. With a 4-inch diagonal, sunlight-readable, high-resolution touchscreen display, the D30 also includes […]

Garmin has introduced its take on the radar altimeter for small aircraft with the GHA 15 “height advisor.” The device, which is now available for experimental and light sport aircraft, starts measuring the aircraft’s AGL altitude at 500 feet and displays the information on G3X Touch displays in non-certified aircraft. It sends hundreds of radar […]

After some hand wringing at the highest levels, a safety summit and a blue-chip committee being struck to address a spate of clench-worthy runway incursions, now there’s an app for that. The latest ForeFlight release includes a feature that warns the crew of an aircraft on final approach if there’s an airplane on the runway […]